A big thing about Spader to me is he has a knack for playing characters thare intelligent and calculating, but also a little off. And his voice when playing those characters is a huge part of putting that across. Bravo Joss. Bravo.

This is great casting. It's strange seeing that other people either don't know who he is or only know him from The Office. He's going to knock it out of the park in this role. Brilliant casting by Marvel. If anyone's ever seen Crash (not the Everybody is Racist Crash) but the we get turned on by Car accidents Crash, you know he can be creepy and disturbing as heck.

As well as 80's Teen movies, Cronenberg movies, The Secretary and Star Gate I know James Spader from films like
Wolf and The Watcher. The watcher is the only time I've ever seen Keanu Reeves play a villain.

It's weird how they announced the casting. They did it pretty early for a character that will probably be CGI and I can't recall when they've ever announced a casting with their own press release. I'm betting this is how we'll get Thanos's casting too. Speaking of which...any day now...